Dear Editor
While I agree heartily with most of the points made by David Wright in his article ‘Reasons to be proud of being British’ on Monday – particularly items 2, Stunning architecture, and 6, the legacy of British colonialism – item 12, No death penalty, betrays the popular mythical thinking that as we do not execute criminals the state neither requires nor facilitates destruction of human life; but this is not so!
When I was a child in the 1950s, the state required the death of a handful of murderers who had gone through long legal processes of appeals and were considered guilty. Today, the state facilitates thousandsof deaths every year through the abortion industry and the NHS; the victims are entirely innocent. The UN was set up after WWII to prevent further wars (look how that turned out!) Now, one of its principal activities is the spreading of abortion around the world; the victims are in their millions. (And, while we’re on the subject, remember that ‘our’ NHS is a national death service, as well as health service. A couple of years ago, a woman in my street was pregnant. She already had several children, and was, I fancy, ill-educated and working class. A hospital urged abortion; for one thing, the baby was going to have Down’s Syndrome. She refused. A clutch of doctors continued to urge her to terminate. She refused again, and the baby was born; it did not have Down’s Syndrome.)
No, I’m not necessarily in favour of capital punishment – it’s just that it’s rather hard to get worked up about an execution of the odd mass murderer when the evil state is allowing thousands of innocent lives to be terminated before they have begun.
John Thomas
Wolverhampton
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